{"id":85,"date":"2007-09-14T06:15:09","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T06:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/14\/a-day-on-the-zone-diet-plan\/"},"modified":"2007-09-14T06:15:09","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T06:15:09","slug":"a-day-on-the-zone-diet-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/14\/a-day-on-the-zone-diet-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day on the Zone Diet Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I&#8217;d post up yesterdays Zone Diet food intake, just for fun and your criticism.  It&#8217;s never a bad idea to get people to critique you once is a while, so feel free to point out any mistakes you think I&#8217;m making.  I&#8217;m on 17 blocks per day.<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>Breakfast &#8211; 5 blocks<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5oz Cold Roast Turkey Breast (5 <strong>P<\/strong>rotein blocks)<\/li>\n<li>75g Light Philadelphia Cream Cheese (7.5g of fat = 5 <strong>F<\/strong>at blocks)<\/li>\n<li>200ml Innocent Fruit Smoothie (30g of carbs = roughly 3 <strong>C<\/strong>arb blocks)<\/li>\n<li>1 apple (2 Carb blocks)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u><strong>Morning Snack &#8211; 1 block<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> 1oz Cheddar Cheese (1P and I count 1 Fat block here too, as it&#8217;s full fat cheese)<\/li>\n<li>1 Satsuma (1C)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u><strong>Lunch &#8211; 5 blocks<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> 200g Smoked Mackerel (5P)<\/li>\n<li>1 1\/2 cups grapes (3C)<\/li>\n<li>1 Satsuma (1C)<\/li>\n<li>1 Nectarine (1C)<\/li>\n<li>15 Cashew Nuts (5F)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u><strong>Tea &#8211; 5 blocks<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p>This was not a normal tea we had, I decided to do something as close as I could to what I would have considered &#8220;normal food&#8221; before the Zone, so it was Bangers and Mash with gravy!  Only I zoned it of course, and one interesting twist: it wasn&#8217;t mash potato, but mashed cauliflower.  I&#8217;ve found mashed cauliflower to be an excellent mashed potato substitute.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>400g of good quality, 97% Pork Sausages (10P)<\/li>\n<li>1 Large cauliflower 4 cups worth (2C)<\/li>\n<li>1 9inch Parsnip (3C)<\/li>\n<li>2\/3 cup Onion (1C)<\/li>\n<li>Bisto Beef Gravy, about 35g dry weight (4C)<\/li>\n<li>4 tsp Light Mayonnaise (4F)<\/li>\n<li>2 tsp Butter (6F)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Mash was made by steaming the cauliflower, parsnip and onion for 20 mins, then blending them together with a hand blender, with the Mayo, butter and some wholegrain mustard.<\/p>\n<p>The observant amongst you will notice that this meal adds up to a balanced 10 blocker, however I ate exactly half this.<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>Evening <\/strong><\/u><u><strong>Snack &#8211; 1 block<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 cup natural yoghurt (1P and 1C)<\/li>\n<li>9 Pistachio nuts (1F)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Actually, I&#8217;m not sure that 9 Pistachio nuts are 1 block of fat.  But 3 Cashews are, and to my eye a Cashew is about 3 times the size of a Pistachio, so that&#8217;s how I got to 9 = 1 block.  Do you know better, please comment.<\/p>\n<p>So how&#8217;s that, any problems or improvements you can see, let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I&#8217;d post up yesterdays Zone Diet food intake, just for fun and your criticism. It&#8217;s never a bad idea to get people to critique you once is a while, so feel free to point out any mistakes you think I&#8217;m making. I&#8217;m on 17 blocks per day. Breakfast &#8211; 5 blocks 5oz Cold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"category-the-zone-diet"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}